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Wow, Motorola had an iRadio before Apple released their first iPhone? I did not know that.
by jansan 9mo ago
Wow, Motorola had an iRadio before Apple released their first iPhone? I did not know that.
- dredmorbius 9mo ago"iPhone" was an Infogear, later Cisco, trademark, for the InfoGear iPhone (1997--2000 / InfoGear, Cisco/Linksys 2006--2007), which was licenced to Apple. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(internet_appliance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(internet_appliance)> <https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/cisco-infogear-iphone-trademark https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/cisco-infogear-iphon...>
- calgoo 9mo agoIt was licensed... eventually :) Cisco where quick to bring Apple to court if i remember correctly.
- dehrmann 9mo agoI was at Cisco when the Apple iPhone was announced. It was rumored to be happening, so Cisco rushed out a Linksys VoIP(?) phone rebranded (it might have just been a sticker) as an "iPhone" so they could defend the trademark. They quickly reached an agreement with Apple. I remember they might have been getting their VPN included on the device. I'm sure there was a similar issue with iOS, and that caused me to get a lot of not-so-relevant emails from recruiters looking for mobile devs.
- venusenvy47 9mo agoThe weirder phone that they had was the ROKR in 2005. It was a collaboration with Apple and worked with iTunes. People say that it helped Apple get in the phone business, and helped Motorola become even more irrelevant in that space around this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr_E1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr_E1